Enjoy snacks and beverages, as you network with fellow tech enthusiasts before and after the talk.

Abstract:
Netflix is the world's leading internet entertainment service with over 148 million paid memberships in over 190 countries enjoying TV series, documentaries and feature films across a wide variety of genres and languages. Since Netflix first began its international expansion in 2010, localization has played a critical role in bringing joy to global audiences. This presentation will cover the best practices learned through developing and refining a Unicode based timed text processing pipeline, as well as the role of various timed text formats and standards in helping us realize this scalable end-to-end pipeline. In addition, we will discuss the business and tooling strategy for creating and reviewing localized content at scale. This overview will provide an understanding of how the localization ecosystem balances the challenges of scale while prioritizing unique aspects of audiences and languages.

Enjoy snacks and beverages, as you network with fellow tech enthusiasts before and after the talk.

Abstract:
As software systems become more complex, we look for strategies to move faster and produce more reliable systems. Yet the price of success is new and more challenging failures. If failure is inevitable, how do we cope? How do we learn from incidents and other types of failure? And how do our ways of collaborating shape the systems we create?

Bio:
Beth Long is a software engineer who sneaked into a solutions strategist role at New Relic. Many years ago, she abandoned a potential career as a rocket scientist to tinker with websites. She has written, tested, broken, rescued, and taught code. She's the project lead for New Relic's collaboration with the SNAFUcatchers research project, investigating how tech companies cope with complexity and learn from incidents, a project which has caused her to randomly point and declare, "joint cognitive system!"

Join Women Who Code Portland on March 7th as we celebrate International Women's Day a day early at Nike! We are thrilled to invite you to a fun evening including a panel discussion on senior leadership in tech, networking, and food + drinks. Senior leaders at Nike will discuss their journeys into leadership and the steps they have taken to build their successful careers in management. Come enjoy food, great swag and the company of your fellow technologists!

Women Who Code (WWCode) is dedicated to providing an empowering experience for everyone who participates in or supports our community, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, ability, physical appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, age, religion, socioeconomic status, caste, or creed. Our events are intended to inspire women to excel in technology careers, and anyone who is there for this purpose is welcome. Because we value the safety and security of our members and strive to have an inclusive community, we do not tolerate harassment of members or event participants in any form.

Our Code of Conduct applies to all events run by Women Who Code, Inc. If you would like to report an incident or contact our leadership team, please reach out to one of our volunteers or submit an incident report form.

Are you an intermediate Python developer looking to level up? Luckily, Python provides us with a unique set of tools to make our code more elegant and readable by providing language features that make your code more intuitive and cut down on repetition. In this talk, Nina will share practical pythonic solutions for supercharging your code.

Enjoy snacks and beverages, as you network with fellow tech enthusiasts before and after the talk.

Join Eric Baer, Director of Software Development at Formidable, Inc., at the next Nike Tech Talks on June 14! Eric will give a talk on The Evolution of API Design from RPC to GraphQL. Food and beverages will be served, and there will be time to network before and after the talk.

About Eric:
Eric has been developing products for over ten years in everything from embedded systems for high-end audio products to high-traffic APIs in Java. For the past six years, Eric has developed a deep specialization in JavaScript and the associated ecosystem. In his current role, Eric is an O'Reilly author, a conference speaker and Director of Software Development at both Formidable and at Livestock Nutrition Center, where he is driving large projects and writing software around Babel, GraphQL and i18n.

About the Talk:
Over the last 60 years, API designs have changed to respond to everything from new network topologies and new languages, to the pressures of managing ever larger code bases. Today’s most popular API pattern, REST, was developed in a time where the cost of making API requests was plummeting. At the time, bandwidth was getting cheaper, latency was dropping, and the computing power of devices was still tracking Moore’s Law. Mobile turned this on its head. The environments in which apps and APIs need to perform today have effectively regressed a decade.

This talk will explore some of the new client-server interaction models that address today’s pressures and use history to understand the tradeoffs that we made at the transition between the previous designs. Eric will introduce major tools that are attempting to change the API landscape including GraphQL and Falcor. Since GraphQL is the dominant technology in this space, he will examine some of its functionality, touch on some of its syntax and present a live coding demo that shows off a GraphQL server from 0 to 1. Demonstrating a complete implementation in under 10 minutes will give a strong sense of what’s possible, and what kind of complexity burden a tool like this would impose. Spoiler: There is no silver bullet.

Many of us live and/or work on the west side of the metro area but may not have a convenient professional community nearby. Thanks to PDXWIT and NIKE’s support, we can get together to talk tech and other work topics.

With so many tools to help keep us organized and projects moving along, it can be tough to decide which one to use and effective strategies or processes to follow. Tonight, we’ll hear from Tibbs Hefflin, who will talk about using Kanban boards for fun and profit.

Agenda:

5:30 p.m. - Doors open

6:00 p.m. - Introductions & Talks

6:30 p.m. - Networking

7:30 p.m. - Event ends

Event FAQ:

Q: Will there be gender neutral restrooms?
A: No

Q: Is the space ADA accessible?
A: Yes

Q: Will there be food and drink at this event?
A: Yes

Q: What is the parking situation?
A: Yes, ample parking is available after 4:30pm

Q: Is there secured bike parking?
A: No, but there are bike racks

Q: Should I consider using public transportation?
A: Yes. The max stop is a ¾ mile walk to the Nike Decathlon Club Cafe

Purpose:

PDXWIT is a community-based non-profit organization. Our purpose is to strengthen the Portland women in tech community by offering educational programs, partnerships, mentorships, resources and opportunities. We are unifying a supportive environment for current and potential women in tech, all of whom are committed to helping each other. Our goal is to bring together and empower women in tech and to encourage others to pursue tech careers. This is our step towards reducing the gender imbalance in the industry and addressing the current negative effects of that imbalance on women.

Our events are inclusive. ALL people who support our purpose are welcome.

ABSTRACT:
In this talk, we'll use image recognition to take an existing deep learning model and adapt it to a specialized domain (namely: guessing whether articles of clothing are preppy, sporty, punk, etc.). Instead of using a more intensive data classifier, like a Residual Network, we'll use deep transfer learning to overcome a data scarcity problem and build on top of an existing model.

Once the transfer learning model has been trained, we'll pack it up into a dockerized container (specifying inputs and outputs, as well as a score.py file), and then call it as a web service. We will also discuss a #DataOps process for refreshing the model as trends change over time.

Join us on March 8th as we celebrate International Women's Day at Nike! We are thrilled to invite you to a fun evening of talks from experienced technical women, networking, and food + drinks. Come enjoy conversations, great swag and the company of fellow software engineers.

Join Nike Digital for the Nike Tech Talks on August 10th! Paco Nathan, Director of the Learning Group at O'Reilly Media, will be joining us to give a talk on AI in open source and industry. Food and beverages will be served at the event and there will be time to network before and after Paco's talk.

Join Nike Digital for the Nike Tech Talks on June 6th! Riva-Melissa Tez, Managing Partner at Permutation Ventures and a 2017 recipient of the Forbes 30 under 30 for Finance, will be joining us to give a talk titled, What You Actually Need to Know about the Artificial Intelligence Revolution. Enjoy some food and drinks while networking before and after the talk!

About the Talk:
Artificial intelligence is everywhere. How will it affect us as people, companies and as a species? This talk will explore the current progress of AI, where it came from and where it's going.

About Riva:
Riva is a managing partner at Permutation Ventures, an early stage VC fund focused on applied machine learning companies. She has held teaching positions at the DAB and HTW Business Schools and has guest-lectured at Oxford, Birkbeck, and Stanford. Riva writes about artificial intelligence, finance, and philosophy and represented AI in a 2016 Microsoft campaign for The Economist and was a 2017 recipient of Forbes 30 under 30 for finance.

Join Nike Digital for the Nike Tech Talks on May 18th! The event will take place from 4:30 PM to 6:30 PM at the Nike Decathlon Club Cafe. Food and beverages will be served and there will be time to network before and after the talks.

Join Nike Digital for the Nike Tech Talks on April 13th! The event will take place from 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM at the Nike Decathlon Club Cafe. Food and beverages will be served and there will be time to network before and after the talks.

Join Nike Digital for the Nike Tech Talks on Thursday, March 16th. Norman Maurer, Senior Software Engineer at Apple and Netty project lead, will be giving a talk on Netty - The Async Event-Driven Network Application Framework. Food and beverages will be served and there will be time to network before and after the talk.

Join Nike Digital for the Nike Tech Talks on Tuesday, February 21st. We're excited that we were able to reschedule January's talk with Mitchell Hashimoto, Founder of HashiCorp and innovator on the Forbes 30 Under 30 in Enterprise Tech list. Mitchell will present a talk titled, Apply Graph Theory to Infrastructure as Code.

Food and beverages will be served and there will be time to network before and after the talk.

There’s a revolution underway in how people work with data. For one thing, streaming data is no longer seen as a special use case – and that’s a good thing because streaming is a better fit to the way life happens. Stream-first architectures are useful even beyond real-time processing. Another big idea has to do with where data lives: the big data revolution showed us that data structures spanning more than one machine are a good thing. But a new revolution involves data structures that span more than one continent (geo-distribution) and that go from on-premise to cloud.

In this talk, Ellen will tell a few stories that show how innovation with real impact can happen, including the shift in thinking and in engineering culture that underlie successful change. We’ll look at emerging technologies and how best to use them, new designs in architecture, and flexible practices such as a microservices style that have huge implications in IoT and other large-scale analytical workflows.

Graphs are mathematical structures used to model relationships between objects. Modern infrastructure is a series of resources (objects) that have dependencies and ordering requirements (relationships). Thus, modern infrastructure can be represented as the mathematical construct of a graph. With just a few nodes, the relationships between resources in an infrastructure are easy to understand, but at a certain scale, the relationships become impractical to reason about.

Terraform relies on years of graph theory research to model the relationships between infrastructure resources so operators can safely manage and change infrastructure resources across bare metal, IaaS, PasS, and SaaS. Operators can avoid unforeseen consequences using Terraform

Our modern systems are no longer just simple CRUD apps. We now need to deal with massive, distributed, real-time data systems that ingest potentially terabytes of data, support real-time and batch analytics, do machine learning, and support a host of web and mobile app interfaces. This session will walk through architectural patterns and technologies for building these modern data pipelines. You will learn about Apache Kafka, a variety of databases, and data processing frameworks like Spark.

Join Nike Digital for the next event in our Nike Tech Talks series this Thursday, August 11th (4:00-7:30pm). Learn about scaling stateful services and the history of distributed programming and network over snacks and drinks. RSVP today at: https://niketechtalksaug112016.splashthat.com!

Join Nike Digital for the next event in our Nike Tech Talks series this Thursday, June 9th (4:00-6:30pm). Learn about reactive design patterns and network over snacks and drinks. RSVP today at: https://techtalksjune2016.splashthat.com!

Nike Consumer Digital Tech is hosting tech talks for the PDX tech community on Apr. 14th. We're bringing two great speakers to the Nike campus and there will be time to network and enjoy snacks and drinks.

Nike Consumer Digital Tech is hosting tech talks for the PDX tech community on Feb. 11th. We're bringing two great speakers to the Nike campus and there will be time to network and enjoy snacks and drinks. Kelsey Hightower, Staff Developer Advocate at Google, will be giving a talk on Kubernetes and Karl Matthias, Lead Systems Engineer at Nitro, will be giving a talk on Docker: Behind the API.

Kubernetes:
talk will take a detailed look at Kubernetes, the open source orchestration system for Docker containers, and explore the key terms, concepts, and vocabulary introduced by the project. The remainder of the talk will focus on the technical details of Kubernetes and bring the concepts to life through a collection of live demos that walk attendees through deploying a real world application using Kubernetes.

Docker Behind the API:
Containers and Docker have been making headlines for a couple of years. But beyond the command line tools and Docker Remote API, what is the Docker Engine doing? What exactly is a Docker container? In this talk, we'll take a pass through some of the Docker internals, look at how it interacts with the kernel and the network, and review some of the mechanisms that underpin the containerized future.

Nike Consumer Digital Tech is hosting the next Tech Talks on Thursday, November 19th (4:00-7:30pm)! Join us at the Nike campus for the talks as well as networking time with snacks and drinks. Learn more about and RSVP at: https://niketechtalks-nov2015.splashthat.com.

Apache Spark has come a long way since it began as a faster batch oriented map-reduce solution for Hadoop. With support for streaming, machine learning, and most recently SQL, Spark aspires to become a player in the realm of real time analytics at scale. However, much of its underpinnings remain batch oriented and unsuited for highly concurrent OLAP workloads. In this talk, we will describe how we are innovating and renovating Spark's core underpinnings to make it suitable for real time operational analytics, helping create a unified platform that supports row and column data, high concurrency, and approximate query processing at scale.

In this talk, Adam will discuss Compellon's approach to so-called prescriptive analytics, which basically means "Ok, but what the *&^% should I do now!?". He'll talk about the barriers blocking domain experts from using analytic systems, how data scientists bias their models, and the evolution of Compellon's engine, written in Scala with Apache Spark.

Nike Tech Talks - October 15

Clear your calendar! Nike Consumer Digital Tech is hosting tech talks for the PDX tech community on October 15th. We're bringing great speakers to the Nike campus and there will be time to network and enjoy snacks and drinks.

How Augmented Reality Will Change Your Life, Relationships, and the Planet

Augmented Reality opens new opportunities beyond gaming and entertainment. People are only beginning to explore how practical applications of augmented reality in science, medicine, engineering, commerce and education can improve people’s lives in far reaching ways. Due to the broad impact of applications, augmented reality is projected to eclipse virtual reality and become a $120 billion industry over the next five years. This talk touches on the types of applications that will drive the proliferation of AR.

Todd Revolt is the head of Strategic Alliances at Meta. He has more than 20 years experience in the software industry. He built global channels at Zendesk, Atlassian, Lithium, and Zero G. At each, he was responsible for overseeing a variety of activities including marketing, sales, new business development, and global expansion. Todd has entertained, and educated audiences at several major conferences, and events including Wearable Technology Show, We are Wearables, MindCET Isreal, Wearable Tech Expo Japan, and Paris Descartes University.

The Virtual Reality Revolution: The Future of Immersive Technology

Virtual Reality is a completely new communications medium that has the potential to radically change everything from gaming, entertainment, education, health care, architecture, marketing, and social telepresence applications. The consumer launch of VR is just around the corner, and Kent Bye has conducted over 250 Voices of VR podcast interviews with the leading VR developers and academics. Kent will talk about the current state of virtual reality, some of the exciting applications in different fields, some of the current limitations of VR, what is on the horizon, as well as insights into the ultimate potential of virtual reality. He will also have some virtual reality gear on hand that you will be able to try.

Kent Bye is the host of the daily Voices of VR podcast and the co-founder of the Portland Virtual Reality Meetup. The Voices of VR podcast has featured over 200 of the pioneering game developers, enthusiasts and technologists driving the resurgence of virtual reality. Kent has been traveling to the top VR gatherings around world since May 2014 in order to capture a diverse range of VR perspectives and insights from the leading pioneers of VR. He’s also a VR developer creating a variety of different immersive educational experiences.

Clear your calendar! Nike Consumer Digital Tech is hosting tech talks for the PDX tech community on August 13th. We're bringing two great speakers to the Nike campus and there will be time to network and enjoy snacks and drinks.